As it is very fine day after a long spell rain, I went down to my country club. While I was not aware of it, the speedway crossing the Bay Bridge was extended to Sankeien. As the extension is short, it has no real effect for saving time. But the efforts for improving roads and traffics are worth to be appreciated.
In the morning, it had no wind with humidity. But in the afternoon, we had a breeze and clouds screening the summer sun shine. This is the third time for this year to play golf, the second time since I came back from mid- and west- tour of U.S. At the second one when I played with Kurosunakai members, my driver shots were fairly well as balls went straight although it gained little distance. So I thought if I did a little exercises at driving rage I might be able to get a little more distance easily. I went to a driving range two continuous days, the day before yesterday and yesterday, and tried to rotate waist a little more and move weight to left leg quickly as Mr. Iino taught me the other day. I felt that I made some improvement. But today all these efforts brought no effects but disasters. My waist did not rotate against my will with the result that I could hit ball only with hands swing, I failed to make shots even with short irons. My partners were patient enough for bringing me to hole out at the final green. Excepting Mr. Kitagawa, a class mate. two partners were a bit younger than me. But they said they were making efforts to train themselves in order to keep basic strength for golf. I did such a effort before the crash on my leg. These day I did not do at all. I thought I should go to a swimming pool just for walking in water from tomorrow.
I took a dinner at the center of Tokyo. A waiter was surprised to see that I drunk a big bottle of water without stop. I might have been in a dehydrate symptoms.